The Scotsman - 2020-08-01

• Hat’s the way: Scotland swelters in sun
• Avoid virus hotspots in England, Scots told
• Peerage for Davidson as Ross set for coronation as Tory leader
• 250 jobs go as Edinburgh Airport cuts third of staff
• Cherry rules herself out of Holyrood
• New chapter for book festival revealed
• Under half adults social distancing
• Helplines set to launch as pupils face ‘very different’ exam results
• Lord Advocate urged to consider care home issue as health breach
• Swinney understand­s school ‘anxiety’
• Davidson made peer as PM elevates Brexit rebels
• One in five infected with Covid-19 ‘did not display any symptoms’
• ‘I was always in awe of his talent’: Bugsy Malone director dies aged 76
• Figurehead of first new Edinburgh concert hall for a century steps down
• Drama gives one black life that mattered seven more years to spread his wings
• Judge addresses ‘controvers­y’ over jury decision as trio jailed for officer’s death
• Trial raises hope for earlier detection of lung cancer
• Obama issues stark warning after Trump suggests delaying election
• Hong Kong elections delayed by year over virus outbreak fears
• Every leader should face the mirror test
• Scotland needs an effective opposition
• Hey Big Man!
• Scotland’s tall tales
• How can a defence of feminism be ‘right-wing’ and ‘exclusiona­ry’?
• Boycott threat
• Scotland has the natural resources and talent to make its own way in the world
• ON TWITTER
• Betrayed trust?
• ARTIST #2 Rae-yen Song
• BT pledges help for small firms as virus hits finances
• Collagen firm ‘rebounding’ after £2m loss
• Coronaviru­s pandemic pushes TSB to £65.5m pre-tax loss in first half
• Enquest seals £13.6m field deal
• Natwest takes £2.1 billion hit due to impact of Covid-19
• Plea for help to curb ‘super rats’
• Commission branded a political fig leaf launched
• Best ways to gain – but without the pain
• NOW & THEN
• Quinn’s El Astronaute can rocket past opposition in Hamilton sprint
• Rangers are ‘ready’ for the day Morelos leaves Ibrox
• No avoiding title ‘noise’ but Gerrard is staying focused
• Dons in double swoop
• Goodwin ready for more enterprise as he heeds lessons from his first season
• Ten in a row is only the start for Lennon
• Mellon feels like ‘a 15-year-old’ as coming home fulfils a boyhood dream
• Newell beginnings for Hibs as he looks to hit the ground running
• Aidan Smith
• Lampard and Arteta chase silver lining to first campaign in charge
• Hamilton playing catch-up as Stroll sets the pace in Silverston­e practice
• Scotland must improve away record if we are to increase Lions representa­tion
• Scott’s schedule up in the air but he’s looking forward to US Amateur
• Koepka loses lead in WGC after ‘bad day’ on the greens in Memphis
• My festival
• Fergus Linehan has spent lockdown thinking about the EIF’S future. He tells Joyce Mcmillan why outreach and climate change are on his mind
• Art Festival
• ‘Edinburgh needs a radical reimaginin­g of the city’s future’
• ‘The Fringe needs to get back to its roots’
• ‘Freedom is dangerous, let’s celebrate it’
• Susan Mansfield speaks to three of the artists whose work will feature online and across the city as the EAF seeks to reflect on the pandemic
• Other artists featured at this year’s EAF
• As writer Ali Smith – who has been described as ‘Scotland’s Nobel laureate in waiting’ – brings her dazzling Seasonal Quartet to a close, David Robinson asks her about the hopes, fears and ideas behind its concluding novel, Summer.
• While the spontaneit­y of jazz craves a live audience, Jim Gilchrist finds plenty to enjoy in the online version of the annual festival
• Ask the gulls, the best things in life are free
• Spa spy Mane chance
• Welcome back
• Centre stage in a crisis
• Nothing to Crowe about
• Degrees of hope
• Fiona Shepherd
• Shuggie Bain
• Ravenscrai­g Elegy
• Taylor made
• New tracks offer soundscape­s of time and place in the Highlands
• Designs for life
• New-look festivals for 2020
• Gaby Soutar
• Komodo, Indonesia
• ‘We can do little on our own, together we can move mountains’
• ‘Women will be sent away with the wrong diagnosis’
• Break for the borders
• Enjoy tasty crops and a firework display of colour
• Does it really matter if surfers have to order all their gear online from now on?
• Your life in the stars

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